Mayat Valentin Sergeevich - a well-known scientist, surgeon, teacher, creator of the surgical scientific school (on the 115th anniversary of his birth)

Mayat Valentin Sergeevich - surgeon, doctor of medical sciences (1946), professor (1950), Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Hero of Socialist Labor (1969), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1976, 1987).Mayat Valentin Sergeevich was born in 1903. After the termination of the 2nd Moscow University he worked in a hospital surgical clinic (since 1925), served in the Red Army (since 1939). During the Great Patriotic War - the leading surgeon of the Penza evacuation hospital No. 1649 (since October 1941), the chief surgeon of the evacuation hospitals in the Penza region (from August 1942 to August 1945). In 1949, V.S. Majat worked in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the surgical department of the government hospital, while lecturing at Peking University. After returning from the PRC, he was elected the head of the Department of Hospital Surgery of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute (1953), simultaneously (1952-1964) was deputy chief surgeon and then chief surgeon of the 4th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Health of the USSR (until 1974). He developed a new method of phalloplasty, the classification of gunshot joint injuries. He prepared 14 doctors and 47 candidates of medical sciences, published over 250 scientific papers, author of 3 monographs, including on the topic: "Carotid artery surgery" (1966), which was awarded the NN Prize. Burdenko. Honorary member of the Moscow (1973), Georgian (1976), All-Union (1978) scientific surgical societies, a member of the International Society of Surgeons. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, the Second World War, several foreign orders and medals.